Fakebooks

Does anyone know if there are any good fakebooks for bass. A nice blues or Jazz one would be great. People are always talking about reading tab or standard or learning by ear, but I haven't seen anything about fake books. Do they make them for the bass? I haven't really looked yet, thought I would save some time and ask here first.

Well, there has actually been quite a lot of discussion about this. I tend to use the Sher Real Book and "Latin Real Book" quite a lot. But I use the C versions and don't really bother with Bass clef versions - although I have picked up a few book/Cd combinations of Jazz "heads" in bass clef. Mostly, I'm improvising from the chords so a C version is fine.

Originally posted by Pacman please don't confuse the Sher Music "New Real Books" with 'the real books'. Sher real books are more accurate, and legal. The real book is illegal,underground, inaccurate and what everybody uses.

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I should have been a little more clear (although, I did provide a link direct to Sher)...

Sher Music has The New Real Books, volumes I, II, & III, plus many other Jazz and Latin books.

I would you recommend you get the bass clef version of "The New Real Book" by Chuck Sher, that way you play the melodies as well as work with the chords. I believe only the 3rd version is in bass clef.

Originally posted by Phil Smith I would you recommend you get the bass clef version of "The New Real Book" by Chuck Sher, that way you play the melodies as well as work with the chords. I believe only the 3rd version is in bass clef.

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is there a bass clef version of that book? Man, it'd be sweet if there was one, I'd love to have one.....

Thanks for the info and the link guys, I do apreciate it. Sorry about posting a thred that had been done already, still new and didn't bother to search it out this time. Will know better for the future. Thanks again.